Effects of Taping & Exercise Therapy on Lower Back Musculoskeletal Conditions in Pakistani Patients

University of Karachi100 enrolled

Overview

Lower back pain has been one of the most frequently occurring musculoskeletal disorder among the females. This act as a global burden and is highly prevalent in our society. This pain can result in life long disability, loss of function and mobility among individuals. The female of the society suffers from lower back pain the most because of the under lying causes, prolong standing and stooping as well as because of hormonal changes in their bodies

After studying the prevalence of the lower back pain among the females of Pakistan, the investogator find the need to assess the type of their pain and find out the best way to ease their pains. The motive was to develop a treatment protocol whose effects last longer and is inexpensive for the management of lower back pain. Moreover, the investigator decided to study that which treatment protocol is better when compared to another and what is the role of sham treatment when given to the patients.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

100

Conditions

Lower Back Pain Musculoskeletal Diseases or Conditions

Interventions

TherapyPROCEDURE

Only Myofascial Release will be provided

Taping techniquePROCEDURE

Only Kinesiotaping will be provided

Therapy with tapingPROCEDURE

Myofascial release will be provided followed by Kinesiotaping

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 28 YearsMax age: 38 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Females who were willing to participate. * Participants with nonspecific lower back pain will only be included and screened through the screening questionnaire. Exclusion Criteria: * Post-menopausal women * Females with any diagnosed co-morbidity. * Back pain progressive to any neurological deficit * Sustained or increased back pain with loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss accompanied with fever, nausea and chills * With any known spinal or lower back pathology * Tumor of the spine * Any underlying diseases of spinal cord (i.e, ankylosing spondylosis, spondolisthesis) * With any steroid therapy for lower back pain in the past three months * Any inflammatory rheumatic disease * Sensitive skin or any skin allergy or dermatological condition * Any rehabilitative services taken for the lower back pain in the past two months * Rejection to manual conatct

Locations (1)

Al-Tibri Medical college and hospital

Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan